Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-17

Miss Alice Decker. of Milford, y.
l.. has attained local reputation by
the manner in which she rides fierce
Young mustang pony. She frequently
rides the little horse at a breakneck
pace through the streets, without sad
die or bride, and nothing but her
riding-vhip to guide or restrain the
horse. She may be seen almost any
day by the passengers on the trains
toward and from Coopcrstown wheel
ing and racing alongside the railroad
tracks, going somewhat faster at times
than the train. She is vain Of her skill,
and before the eyes of the passengers
She vaults fences and bitches without
ceremony.
The city authorities in Paris have Just
tested an Austrian invention for auto
maticallv lowering collins into graves
without ropes. \ coffin was placed on
a kind OF rectangular platform, and sur
rounded with funeral drapery, which
concealed the grave. When IA spring
was pressed the platform, with itsluGu-
brious burden, descended slowly into
the earth. The price of the apparatus
is $50, and the inventor states that 1t Is
used in Vienna and Milan, the rate
PAYABLE beingsix francs for each burial.
lie Prefecture of the Seine has asked
for some modifcat'onsin the machinery
before taking 1t into use.
The following novelty i'll the bird
story line emanates from the hudson
"a. w. RcgistCr: "This morning a
Great commotion was noticed among
The sparrows who have nests in the cor
nices Of the brick building corner of
State and Short streets, and it was quite
evident that something unusual was
going on. Soon what appeared to be
a Callows, composed Of straw, was seen
10 hang from the building when five
of the leaders forced one of the other
birds to place its head in the moose
and the trap was sprung. The bird
was then left by It's companions, ana
its dead body has been viewed 10y many
Of our citizens to-day.
The Karkaz newspaper, referring III
a leading article 10 the successful eX-
periments made in the Transcaucasus
IN the culture of sugar cane, announces
that the latter is also reared near the
town of Kerki, i'll Bokhara. kerl
having been occupied by Russian
troops, the K'dUka. is of opinion that a
Good opportunity is Offered for the IN
PRODUCTION of a considerable quantity
Of the roots of the cane into Russia rtd
the Oxus to Chardjui, and thence by
rail. The above newspaper speaks OF
the Bekdom of Kerki as being one OF
the most flourishing districts of Box
hara. Further it states that Kerki is
the market for the Afghan town OF
Andkhoi. which in its turn serves as
trading point of transfer for the Rus
sian Akhal Turcomans
The medical world is becoming alive
to a sharp epidemic of sweating sick
ness which has burst out sporadically
in many parts of France. This dis
ease, a Paris correspondent of Lon
don newspaper writes, has always ex-
listed in mild form, and is ordinarily
regarded as mere summer-heat
rash of the military kind; bat this
wear it is accompanied with violent
perspiration of most weakening kind,
and a pimply eruption covering the
whole body, which has in some cases
a blistered appearance. The Black
Prince died Of sweating sickness,
which used to be a scourge in the time
of the Edwards and the Henrys, when
the English armies were in occupation
of a part Of France. 1t is announced
officially from Bourges that although
the sweating sickness is rapidly spread
ing in that town and neighborhood the
mortality attending upon il is rather on
the decline.